Best Bruce Wayne

[PyroChamber]

I didn't see a thread on this but if it's there feel free to close...

We all have our opinions on who was the best Batman, but who do you think was better at playing Bruce Wayne himself when he wasn't Batman?

 

[TruerToTheCore]

(I don't include Conroy)

1. West
2. Kilmer
3. Bale
4. Clooney (quite good Alfred/Bruce scenes!)
5. Keaton

 

[Pfeiffer-Pfan]

(Well I do include Conroy - His performances is just as valid as any)

1) Conroy - I loved the shift of his vocal performances... and through the course of the show, we got to see various aspects of Bruce's personality.

2) Bale - No 1, if you just consider Live-action. Bottom line... we got to know Bruce before we got to know Batman... he was also able to bring out various aspects of Bruce's personality with a subtle performance.

3) West - Didn't see enough of him as Wayne... and it was all very 1-dimensional... but he had the looks and exudes a classic, golden age Wayne.

4) Keaton - Bruce Wayne didn't really exist with him. And if he did, he was subdued and tortured. Batman was in control with Keaton at all times.

5) Clooney - Good Bruce/ Alfred scenes.

6) Kilmer - A bit stiff and stale really... but good with playboy Bruce.

 

[Bruce_Wayne29]

Bale and Keaton were the best in my opinion.

 

[Oriin]

1) Kilmer - His Wayne was a party-goer and a source of the paparazzi and hounded by the media, but he was also in-control of his Company and not in the pretend to be lazy and naive but secret in-charge of it all way but in the way that he actually looks over the projects and talks with his employees.

2) Bale, party-goer but not really a paparazzi hound no one was really going after like he was a playboy there was three mentions of him in the press through-out the Nolan movies, he was also very involved in his company but he didn't like that to be known.

3) Clooney, Again hounded by the press involved publicly with his company and I don't care what you say but the Alfred scenes are pretty god damn great.

4) West, Classic and almost verbatim copy of Golden Age Bruce.

5) Keaton, His Bruce Wayne was so different from the comics so out there, so Tim Burton.. He wasn't Bruce Wayne he was the Hunchback of Notre Dame in his big castle obsessively waiting for that damn bat-signal so he can go out and murder the criminals (Keaton's Batman did kill.)

 

[CFE]

Keaton is, IMO, the best live action Batman.

Bale is, IMO, the best live action Bruce Wayne.

CFE

 

[Kevin Roegele]

No question, Adam West.

Not only does he look just like the classic version of the character, he does the effortless playboy charm perfectly - whilst all the time ready to leap into action and rush to the Batcave.

 

[The Batkilt]

1) Kilmer - His Wayne was a party-goer and a source of the paparazzi and hounded by the media, but he was also in-control of his Company and not in the pretend to be lazy and naive but secret in-charge of it all way but in the way that he actually looks over the projects and talks with his employees.

2) Bale, party-goer but not really a paparazzi hound no one was really going after like he was a playboy there was three mentions of him in the press through-out the Nolan movies, he was also very involved in his company but he didn't like that to be known.

3) Clooney, Again hounded by the press involved publicly with his company and I don't care what you say but the Alfred scenes are pretty god damn great.

4) West, Classic and almost verbatim copy of Golden Age Bruce.

5) Keaton, His Bruce Wayne was so different from the comics so out there, so Tim Burton.. He wasn't Bruce Wayne he was the Hunchback of Notre Dame in his big castle obsessively waiting for that damn bat-signal so he can go out and murder the criminals (Keaton's Batman did kill.)

That more or less sums up what I was going to post. Well, that and I think Val had the charm and looks to pull off the playboy aspect of Bruce, as well as the intensity to pull off the philanthropist aspect to the character.

 

[p4poetic]

Yay! Multiple choice. Christian, Michael and Adam for me.

1) Kilmer - His Wayne was a party-goer and a source of the paparazzi and hounded by the media, but he was also in-control of his Company and not in the pretend to be lazy and naive but secret in-charge of it all way but in the way that he actually looks over the projects and talks with his employees.

2) Bale, party-goer but not really a paparazzi hound no one was really going after like he was a playboy there was three mentions of him in the press through-out the Nolan movies, he was also very involved in his company but he didn't like that to be known.

3) Clooney, Again hounded by the press involved publicly with his company and I don't care what you say but the Alfred scenes are pretty god damn great.

4) West, Classic and almost verbatim copy of Golden Age Bruce.

5) Keaton, His Bruce Wayne was so different from the comics so out there, so Tim Burton.. He wasn't Bruce Wayne he was the Hunchback of Notre Dame in his big castle obsessively waiting for that damn bat-signal so he can go out and murder the criminals (Keaton's Batman did kill.)

LOL. Even though I disagree with your order, I couldn't help but laugh at this.

 

[rashad]

Bale is the best Bruce Wayne.

 

[Symbiotic]

Bale, with Kilmer as the best of the Burton-Schumacher series.

 

[TheDarkKnight08]

Christian Bale. His Bruce, his Batman. Two completely different personallities in one person. Everything Batman AND Bruce Wayne should be, IMHO.

Conroy and Keaton are still close to my heart, though.

And WTF voted for Clooney?!?

 

[El Payaso]

Keaton, His Bruce Wayne was (...) in his big castle obsessively waiting for that damn bat-signal so he can go out and murder the criminals (Keaton's Batman did kill.)

That sounds pretty much like Bruce Wayne (and so unlike any version of Hunchback).

 

[Oriin]

That sounds pretty much like Bruce Wayne (and so unlike any version of Hunchback).

I don't know what Bruce your talking about but almost all the comic Bruce's I know of are out on the town and in the media, not sulking away in his mansion so much that people do not even know what he looks like.

Also, Bruce doesn't kill neither does Batman but Keaton did.

 

[SPIDERMAN117]

Keaton is, IMO, the best live action Batman.

Bale is, IMO, the best live action Bruce Wayne.

CFE

Pretty much the way I see it to.

 

[Cain]

I rank them like this

Conroy, Bale, Kilmer, Keaton, West and then the Cloonster.

 

[RobinBoy7]

I'm gonna say bale. Bruce is supposed to be an A$$ so he would be the last person you would think is batman. I think bale does a really good job of that

 

[Cain]

Bruce is supposed to be an A$$ so he would be the last person you would think is batman.

No he doesn't.

 

[Kevin Roegele]

I'm gonna say bale. Bruce is supposed to be an A$$ so he would be the last person you would think is batman. I think bale does a really good job of that

Absolutely. The scene in TDK when he is insulting Harvey at dinner and criticising Batman, whilst all the time actually looking at Harvey with admiration, is a great one. Great acting (of Bruce acting) by Bale. You can actually see him thinking, putting on an act.

 

[Green Scar]

honestly...who voted clooney? i voted bale. keaton would be second, the conroy...and after that it's a tie between kilmer and west with clooney coming in dead last.